Russian Polivoks Synth For Ableton
Design the Media has released a new Ableton Live Pack designed by Tristan Héau, with a collection of more than 300 samples from the Russian Polivoks synth. They say that the sounds were carefully recorded, using an accurate tuner and Apogee preamps in order to catch that raw, nasty, analog sound from this eastern beast.
Tristan also created specific drum kits, Simpler presets (made from simpler and sampler live instruments) and custom instruments Racks (with esoteric macro knobs to be mapped to your favorite midi controller).
A spokesperson told us, “In the project folder under you will find all the samples organized by category. For example, you will find any possible combination of perfectly tuned oscillators of the polivoks – sine alone, sine with square, sine with triangle etc. All recorded waveforms were made with a tuner so that this material can be used more easily for sampling. You’ll be very surprised to hear how those analog waveforms sound. Then, they are some more classic waveforms – bass and lead sounds, all kind of noise sources, great feedback tones, and more exotic recording made while pushing this analog monster into his limit – hi rez, filter sweeps, unstable patches and more.”
Pricing and Availability:
Free download.
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New dubstep freebie for Ableton Live users
Andrew Apanov from XSSRAcademy informs us about a new freebie for Ableton Live users:
We have JUST published something really cool. This is a free bundle of packages with over 100 dubstep bass samples, dozens of Massive presets (all samples and presents created and used by Mars), two full Ableton Life projects of Mars’ tunes, including a track that was in Beatport Top 10, and an Ableton Live instrument.
The free Live downloads include:
- Ableton Live project of the track “Pleasure” by Alex Kote
- Full Ableton Live project of “India Sleeping” by Mars (the track was in Top 10 dubstep tracks on Beatport)
- Free dubstep instrument “Arena Bass” for Ableton Live
- 12 dubstep subbass samples, created and used in his tracks by Mars
- 17 presets for NI Massive
- 20 unique NI Massive effects
- 63 original dubstep bass samples
Email registration is required. See the site to preview the downloads.
Analog – new soundset for the Saurus software synthesizer.
Tone2 has announced Analog, a new soundset for the Saurus software synthesizer.
Taking you on a journey through an analog world, the Analog soundset digs deeper into Saurus’ offerings with a strong emphasis on authentic vintage sounds.
A collection of 200 classic synth sounds including emulations of the Moog, Oberheim, Jupiter, Arp Solina, Clavinet and many others that suit almost every style of Electronic music. Let Analog take you back to a time when these machines were at the center of every studio and now be the source for your creative productions
Enjoy its warm strings, expressive brass, dirty leads, squelchy basses, screaming synths, vibrant pads and just let it inspire you.
Analog for Saurus is available to purchase for 39 EUR.
TONSTURM 07 | The Sound Of Water
New library released by TONSTURM, The Sound of Water.
With this soundpack you get a vast variety of deep, splashing, bubbling and bursting water sound effects recorded during extensive field recording sessions above and under the surface of water. The underwater sound effects of this library were captured with the mind blowing, high quality underwater stereo recording rig from Sonar Surround.
With TONSTURM 07 | The Sound Of Water you get 140 Soundfiles in Stereo, 24 Bit, 192 kHz. Over 4 GB of Data (@ 192 kHz) plus extra pitched down versions of the high resolution underwater recordings for convenience (additional 2,47 GB).
TONSTURM 07 is available for $99 (192kHz) or $84 (96kHz)
Hear water like you´ve never heard before!
The recordings for this soundpack took place at three different locations: Two beautiful lakes and one outdoor swimming pool. We recorded above and under the surface of water and used all kind of props to perform and capture characterful, deeply bubbling and bursting water sound effects.For the underwater recordings we rented the high quality, mind blowing underwater stereo recording rig from Sonar Surround. These microphones are able to capture a huge frequency range between “5Hz to 85 kHz”! and their “enormous sensitivity and the resulting signal to noise ratio offer a usable dynamic range of more than 100dB. Thus, even the smallest grain of sand movement can be recorded without disturbing noise floor.“
(Quoted from: http://www.ambient.de/produkte/ambient-recording/unterwasser/hydrophone.html)
Electricity coming your way…
Exode Sound has announced the re-release of Electricity, a soundset for the u-he ACE virtual modular synthesizer for Windows and Mac.
130 inspiring presets spanning bass, lead and pads, these sounds are not genre specific, just a high quality collection of synth presets!
Electricity features
- 130 presets, including:
- 40 Bass presets
- 50 Lead presets
- 40 Pad presets
- Requires ACE VST/AU plugin by u-he software.
The Electricity soundset is available to purchase for the (re)introductory price of $10 USD.
Free Ableton Live Pack – Vinyl Crackler
Ableton Live Pack featuring vinyl crackle effect. This effect rack is designed to make your audio sound as if it were sampled from a vinyl record. It’s a modification of the vinyl distortion plug in, but will only introduce the crackles and pops when the audio is playing. Perfect for making drum samples sound like they were sampled from a record player.
Free Download: http://bit.ly/freesynth56
Ableton Live comes with a cool little plug in called vinyl distortion. It adds a layer of record player crackles and pops over any track it is inserted on. This can be a great effect for adding a retro quality to your tracks.
Recently, I was playing around with some live drum samples I set up in an instrument rack and I wanted to create the illusion that those samples came from an old record. I placed the vinyl distortion plug in on the track, but it wasn’t the effect I was looking for. The plug in constantly emits a vinyl crackle. It doesn’t matter whether the song is playing or not, the vinyl distortion plug in is always outputting vinyl crackles. If my samples were taken off of a vinyl record, you would only hear the crackling while the sample is playing. To solve this problem I create this week’s free Ableton Live Rack: Vinyl Crackler.
Steinberg Dark Planet review
Nice review of Steinberg’s Dark Planet:
http://soundsandgear.com/steinberg-dark-planet-review checking out a new vst instrument expansion set from Steinberg called Dark Planet for Halion, Halion Sonic, and Halion Sonic Se. It is a cinematic sound design type library with some really great sounds at a crazy good price
Specifications:
The Dark Planet VST Sound Instrument Set is loaded with hundreds of creepy sounds, shattering loops and eerie instruments, including leads, basses, drums and effects that will inspire and give you the shivers at the same time.
Dark Planet’s earth-shattering sounds are equally suitable for impactful cinematic scores, massive industrial tracks and spacious dark ambient productions.
The integrated MorphFilter and the onboard effects provide everything needed to add spine-tingling ingredients to your productions and fuel your fantasies with the gloom of the Dark Planet.
Touch down on the Dark Planet and be prepared!
New sounds for the Virus TI synth
Resonance Sound has announced the release of CFA-Sound V-Bass , which they describe as “a huge bass soundset for the Virus TI synthesizer that delivers some serious weapons for mass destruction: aggressive dirty electro sounds, percussive and massive bassline tools completed with wild sequences and thrilling guitar sounds.”
Features:
- 80 patches
- macro controls allocated
- modwheel allocated
Requirements: Access Virus TI OS 4.5 or higher.
Pricing and Availability:
20.00 Euros
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Moog releases the Devine Expansion Pack
Moog has released an Expansion Pack for Animoog. They say that each Expansion Pack for Animoog contains powerful presets that inspire creativity as well as new timbres for creating sounds completely unique to you.
Created by Richard Devine, Moog tells us that the Devine Expansion Pack infuses an array of new and unique sounds into Animoog’s Anisotropic Synthesis Engine. They say that, from ethereal lead sounds to sci-fi insanity, the Devine expansion pack takes total advantage of Animoog’s uniquely expressive keyboard, modulation and timbre array.
The Devine Expansion Pack includes 32 original presets handcrafted by Richard Devine himself. Also included are 43 new Timbres nearly doubling Animoog’s sonic vocabulary.
Richard Devines speaks on his The Devine Expansion Pack,
“I have been a fan of Animoog since the day it was launched. Animoog’s ability to mix and match classic analogue waveforms and also digital waveforms is amazing! Being able to sweep, automate, and control them within the Anisotropic Synth Engine is what makes it such an expressive tool for creating new sounds. With the Devine Expansion Pack, I wanted to develop a sound set that took full advantage of all Animoog’s features. Something that was unique and could be played musically or controlled chaotically. The ultimate goal was to create a set of futuristic synth sounds that inspire new ideas and new music.”
Pricing and Availability:
$1.99
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Dubstep Massive – new sound library by Industrial Strength Records
Loopmasters has introduced Dubstep Massive, a sound library by Industrial Strength Records.
It’s time for the Brooklyn sound collective to get dark and dirty with a hot source of fresh loops and patches for any modern Dubstep producer. Dubstep Massive features Bot Audio Loops and NI Massive Presets — it’s like having two packs in one.
This monster pack is loaded with tight drum loops, heavy baselines, and downright infectious synth melodies — All keyed and tempo-matched in 24-bit, 44.1kHz Acid Wav and Apple Loops.
With a mind-blowing set of 90 hard-hitting NI Massive patches, you’ll get Womps, Risers, Sub Drops, Chainsaws, Wobbles, Wubs and Talking bass sounds. We even included a handful of string and pad patches for Logic ES2 – Just listen for em in the Patch Demo!
Dubstep Massive is available to purchase for £23.95 GBP. The Massive patches are also sold separately for £14.95 GBP.
Full Zip Contains:
- 12 6Blocc Promo Samples
- 116 Bass Loops and Samples
- 07 Drop Riffs
- 262 Drum Samples and Loops
- 104 Effects Samples and Loops
- 12 ISR WAV Bonus files
- 74 Melodic Samples and Loops
- 06 Organ Donar Samples
- 123 REX2 Drum Loops
- 08 Soroka Flexi Track samples
- 05 The Swell Flexi Track Samples
- 57 Vocal Loops and Samples
- 04 Womps
- 443 Apple Loops
- 2 Battery Kits
- 2 EXS24 Kits
- 2 Maschine Kits
- 15 Kontakt Kits
- 5 Logic ES2 Kits
- 56 Masive Patches
- 21 Bonus ISR Patches
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